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Chapter III
C) Competencies of the Central Authority of the R.S.F.S.R.

To the exclusive jurisdiction of the central authority of the R.S.F.S.R. belong:

• 2) General provisions concerning the acquisition and loss of rights of citizenship of the R.S.F.S.R., concerning the right of residence and domicile, concerning the rights of foreigners on the territory of the Republic, colonization and resettlement.

5) External relations with foreign states, declaration of war and conclusion of peace.

On 1 April 1918, the VTsIK, after a report by Ya. M. Sverdlov "on the necessity of strict demarcation of f u n c t i o n s between various organs of authority," resolved to establish a commission for the drafting of the Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R. The composition of the commission was determined as follows: chairman of the commission — Ya. M. Sverdlov, vice-chairman M. N. Pokrovsky, secretary V. A. Avanesov, members: A. I. Berdnikov, D. P. Bogolepov, N. I. Bukharin, G. S. Gurvich, M. I. Latsys, D. A. Magerovsky, M. A. Reisner, E. M. Sklyanski, A. P. Smirnov, I. V. Stalin, Yu. M. Steklov, A. A. Shreider. The commission commenced its work on 5 April. Even before the formation of the Constitutional commission, soon after the III Congress, preparatory work was underway in the NKVD and NKYu for the drafting of a constitution. The result of the work of the Department of Legislative Proposals of the NKYu was several draft constitutions, submitted for consideration by the Constitutional commission. Some influence upon the drafting of the draft Constitution by the VTsIK's Constitutional commission was exerted by the draft constitution of the R.S.F.S.R., worked out by the collegium of the NKYu, with the participation of M. A. Reisner. The draft of the NKYu collegium was on 3 July 1918 reviewed by a commission of the CC RCP(b), headed by Lenin. From the NKYu draft, the Constitutional commission adopted certain provisions, with article 2*2 elaborated on the basis of Lenin's indications to point 12, chapter two of the draft of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Justice.

The document printed here represents the first three chapters of the draft Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R., worked out by the collegium of the NKYu; the remarks to the draft, apparently, were made by Lenin before the examination of the draft by the commission of the CC RCP(b), — that is, in the last days of June 1918.

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OUTLINE OF A REPORT ON PETTY-BOURGEOIS PARTIES 
AT THE MOSCOW PARTY ACTIVE¹.

[27 November 1918]

Attitude toward petty-bourgeois democracy

The middle peasant as its basis

See [Engels]
¹ Cf. Red[action].